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as steven was saying, the demand has been that mr. mubarak leave, an end to this regime. this is a president who in 1981 said that he would only be a one-term president. this is a president who has repeatedly said that the the emergency law would be rescinded time and time again. this is a law that has been in place for over 30 years. and this is a president who has promised on multiple occasions to have free and fair elections. and the only thing that are certain, unfortunately, about egyptian elections is that they are not free and fair. >> woodruff: but steven cook, the military and the police were in the streets. security forces, the military are in the streets. we were seeing on the wires that the tanks have moved into the central square in cairo, what further can the protestors do? >> well, they can continue to protest. as we heard in the reports, some protestors are continuing to oppose the army and others are welcoming them as a shield between them and the reviled police. now mubarak is really doubling down by sending the army out. the army is a professional organ
as steven was saying, the demand has been that mr. mubarak leave, an end to this regime. this is a president who in 1981 said that he would only be a one-term president. this is a president who has repeatedly said that the the emergency law would be rescinded time and time again. this is a law that has been in place for over 30 years. and this is a president who has promised on multiple occasions to have free and fair elections. and the only thing that are certain, unfortunately, about egyptian...
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got back their midterm example and i think they're already planning. >> ifill: michael hef heffan and steven gonzalez. thank you very much. >> lehrer: still to come on the "newshour": u.s./pakistani relations; the oil in the gulf and a man on a mission. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan in our newsroom. >> sreenivasan: a bus packed with passengers t a roadside bomb in southern afghanistan today, killing 25 people. 20 others were wounded. the bus was blown up as it drove through nimroz province on a main highway to kabul. meanwhile, nato reported a u.s. service member was killed yesterday in the south. 59 americans have died this month. a record 60 were killed in june. the budget crunch in california is going to hit state workers again. california governor arnold schwarzenegger today ordered a new round of furloughs starting august first. he said state employees will have to take three unpaid days off every month, until the legislature adopts a budget. last year, they piled up 46 days in furloughs-- in effect, a 14% pay cut. the justice department is investigating
got back their midterm example and i think they're already planning. >> ifill: michael hef heffan and steven gonzalez. thank you very much. >> lehrer: still to come on the "newshour": u.s./pakistani relations; the oil in the gulf and a man on a mission. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan in our newsroom. >> sreenivasan: a bus packed with passengers t a roadside bomb in southern afghanistan today, killing 25 people. 20 others were wounded....
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for more, we're joined by steven mufson. he's covering the story for the "washington post." steven, thank you for being with us. >> glad to be here. >> woodruff: first of all, how thur oi was this b.p. investigation? is it known? >> well, it it's about 243-page report, and it's pretty thorough. of course, there are a lot of things they don't have access to. they didn't have access to the blowout preventer, to a lot of the employees at other companies so it's not a complete look, but it's more than we've seen so far. >> woodruff: all in all, how much responsibility do they accept for what happened? >> they accept some responsibility for some decision-- their role in some of the decisions made on the well, but there's a lot of blame that they're spreading to the contractors who are working for them, contractors like haliburton who did the cement job, to transocean, who was operatinthe rig anthe blowout preventer. >> woodruff: can you pin point what they themselves accept responsibility for? >> i think the closest we get to that is some decisions about whether they should have
for more, we're joined by steven mufson. he's covering the story for the "washington post." steven, thank you for being with us. >> glad to be here. >> woodruff: first of all, how thur oi was this b.p. investigation? is it known? >> well, it it's about 243-page report, and it's pretty thorough. of course, there are a lot of things they don't have access to. they didn't have access to the blowout preventer, to a lot of the employees at other companies so it's not a...
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steven dennis, let's talk about paul ryan's budget wonk. how successful was he at that? >> he was very successful. you know, he was the guy when the republicans were down and out after losing the majority in 2006, who helped them pick up the pieces, come up with a new plan to get behind and rly around. when they took back the majority and he had his plan, a lot of folks in his own party and in his own caucus, his own conference who were afraid of his plan, afraid of the medicare proposal, afraid of the deep cuts. and he got... he managed to get them to get behind his plan and rally around it. instead of having a budget passed by just one or two votes the way it normally is done politically because it's too dangerous to vote for real change and real pain, he got his folks to overwhelmingly pass it. they got behind it and rallied around it. it's really become something that, if you're a republican and you don't support the paul ryan plan, you have a potential primary challenge. you have trouble from your base. he is a rock star in the republican base. >> ifill: is it the p
steven dennis, let's talk about paul ryan's budget wonk. how successful was he at that? >> he was very successful. you know, he was the guy when the republicans were down and out after losing the majority in 2006, who helped them pick up the pieces, come up with a new plan to get behind and rly around. when they took back the majority and he had his plan, a lot of folks in his own party and in his own caucus, his own conference who were afraid of his plan, afraid of the medicare proposal,...
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>> lehrer: then former secretary of state madeleine albright, and former national security adviser steven hadley, says the effort to jump start the middle east process. >> ifill: betty ann bowser looks at how vast quantitys of imported pharmaceuticals and food are straining the federal drug administration's safety net. >> many of the laws that created the f.d.a. are the same laws that we're operating under today, and at one time, they were fittinging and appropriate, but the worlt has changed a lot. >> lehrer: and fema administrator, craig fugate, updates emergency preparations as hurricane earl approaches the east coast. that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> i want to be the first to cure cancer. >> people don't really understand why things work. >> i want to be that person that finds out why. >> innovative young minds taking on tomorrow's toughest challenges. chevron. bnsf railway. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasti
>> lehrer: then former secretary of state madeleine albright, and former national security adviser steven hadley, says the effort to jump start the middle east process. >> ifill: betty ann bowser looks at how vast quantitys of imported pharmaceuticals and food are straining the federal drug administration's safety net. >> many of the laws that created the f.d.a. are the same laws that we're operating under today, and at one time, they were fittinging and appropriate, but the...
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. >> reporter: steven miller-- the man forced out as acting head of the i.r.s.-- began by acknowledging failures. >> first and foremost, as acting commissioner, i want to apologize on behalf of the internal revenue service for the mistakes that we made and the poor service we provided. the affected organizations and the american public deserve better. partisanship or even the perception of partisanship has no place at the i.r.s. it cannot even appear to be a consideration in determining the tax exemption of an organization. >> reporter: but at the same time, miller asserted i.r.s. staffers did not act out of political motivation when they gave special scrutiny to tea party and other groups on the political right. >> i think that what happened here was that foolish mistakes were made by people trying to be more efficient in their workload selection. the listing described in the report, while intolerable, was a mistake and not an act of partisanship. >> reporter: miller resigned wednesday, at the behest of treasury secretary jack lew. joseph grant, who oversees requests for tax-exempt sta
. >> reporter: steven miller-- the man forced out as acting head of the i.r.s.-- began by acknowledging failures. >> first and foremost, as acting commissioner, i want to apologize on behalf of the internal revenue service for the mistakes that we made and the poor service we provided. the affected organizations and the american public deserve better. partisanship or even the perception of partisanship has no place at the i.r.s. it cannot even appear to be a consideration in...
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and i think that we owe him an enormous debt, steven ambrose said i just want to show you that don't have to be a hawk to be a great patriots. and george mc2k3w06 earn was that he was a great patriot. he devoted his energy to feeding the hungry and trying to stop the united ates from o ws we shldn have gone into, vietnam and iraq. and i just think he should be remembered for that leadership rather than just the 1972 race. >> the descriptions of the planes he brought back home after they had been shot up were incredible descriptions of things he did. he was an incredibly decent man throughout his senate and even the presidential runs, just incredibly nice. if i could make a cheap political point, he wrote a piece in 1992 for "the wall street journal" after he retired. he bought a b & b, bed & breakfast in con, and he wrote a piece saying if hi been a small businessperson before i was in the senate, i would understand what a pain all these regulations are. and he said i would have been a better senator if i understood what happens when you are try to live under this. so that is maybe a
and i think that we owe him an enormous debt, steven ambrose said i just want to show you that don't have to be a hawk to be a great patriots. and george mc2k3w06 earn was that he was a great patriot. he devoted his energy to feeding the hungry and trying to stop the united ates from o ws we shldn have gone into, vietnam and iraq. and i just think he should be remembered for that leadership rather than just the 1972 race. >> the descriptions of the planes he brought back home after they...
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. >> woodruff: margaret warner gets an update from steven greenhouse of "the new york times" about a labor dispute that pits the government against boeing, and washington state against south carolina. >> lehrer: mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. >> woodruff: and gwen ifill talks to human rights activist john prendergast and his "unlikely brother," michael mattocks, co-authors of a new book chronicling their unique bond. >> did you think who is this strange white guy taking me out in the street like this? >> in the beginning, yeah, but i really at that time didn't care because we was having so much fun. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> well, the best companies are driven by new ideas. >> our future depends on new ideas. we spend billions on advanced technologies. >> it's all about investing in the future. >> we can find new energy-- more cleaner, safer and smarter. >> collaborating with the best in the field. >> chevron works with the smartest people at leading universities and tech comp
. >> woodruff: margaret warner gets an update from steven greenhouse of "the new york times" about a labor dispute that pits the government against boeing, and washington state against south carolina. >> lehrer: mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. >> woodruff: and gwen ifill talks to human rights activist john prendergast and his "unlikely brother," michael mattocks, co-authors of a new book chronicling their unique bond. >> did you...
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warner: the attacks that kied american ambassador chris stevens and three colleagues in benghazi was first described by u.s. officials as an eruption of anger at an anti-islam film. the obama administration has since reversed that appraisal and now calls it a well coordinated terrorist attack. but questions have mounted over the shifting assessments. and today two republican congressmen, oversight committee chairman darrell issa of california and jays leveled new allegations. in a letter to secretary of state clinto they charged washington rejected multiple requests for security improvements at been gas emission. they base their assertions on unidentified sources described as multiple u.s. federal government officials. the state department spokeswoman said the secretary would respond in writing this very day. >> her response is going to be relatively succinct today, as i said, expressing her complete commitment to work with the congress to get fully to the bottom of this. but i don't anticipate she'll be able to answer the specific questions today >> warner: the two congressmen say t
warner: the attacks that kied american ambassador chris stevens and three colleagues in benghazi was first described by u.s. officials as an eruption of anger at an anti-islam film. the obama administration has since reversed that appraisal and now calls it a well coordinated terrorist attack. but questions have mounted over the shifting assessments. and today two republican congressmen, oversight committee chairman darrell issa of california and jays leveled new allegations. in a letter to...
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. >> brown: pastor stevens also had a greater concern about missed opportunities. >> this shouldn't be an election about voting against the other guy. this should be an election about voting for the person who is is going to benefit your community. >> brown: you're not seeing that from either party? >> neither party. neither party >> brown: the two parties intending to stir enthusiasm in the weeks before the vote, that might well be a sobering message indeed. >> ifill: you can find more on jeff's trip to north >> ifill: you can find more on jeff's trip to north carolina, including his foray into mixed martial arts on our web site. watch his newsroom conversation with political editor christina bellantoni, plus a behind-the- scenes slideshow, on our politics page. >> woodruff: the newshour and npr are tracking how the presidential campaigns are spending their ad dollars to target specific demographic groups in battlegrounds like north carolina, our partner kantar media/cmag found that president obama and mitt romney have spent eight times more money this year on spanish- language ads th
. >> brown: pastor stevens also had a greater concern about missed opportunities. >> this shouldn't be an election about voting against the other guy. this should be an election about voting for the person who is is going to benefit your community. >> brown: you're not seeing that from either party? >> neither party. neither party >> brown: the two parties intending to stir enthusiasm in the weeks before the vote, that might well be a sobering message indeed....
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and steven cook, senior fellow for middle eastern studies at the council on foreign relations. 6-thank you all three for being here. i jt wt to report to you and our audience, we've just learned that vice president biden has been on the phone in the last hour or so calling the new egyptian vice president urging restraint on both sides. the wires are reporting the white house is saying that the egyptian government is responsible for ensuring peaceful demonstrations don't lead to violence. now, samer shehata, what is the level of concern here in the united states about where things are headed? >> well, i think people are very concerned, both in egypt and the united states. as the report mentioned, tomorrows supposed to be the day. as far as the protestors are concerned, all different types of protestors, from the april 6 movement to the muslim brotherhood. and they're going to try to get to cairo and get to tahrir, liberation square, in large numbers. and they're hoping that will be the end of mr. mubarak and he will either resign or leave. in fact, one group is calling it his day of dep
and steven cook, senior fellow for middle eastern studies at the council on foreign relations. 6-thank you all three for being here. i jt wt to report to you and our audience, we've just learned that vice president biden has been on the phone in the last hour or so calling the new egyptian vice president urging restraint on both sides. the wires are reporting the white house is saying that the egyptian government is responsible for ensuring peaceful demonstrations don't lead to violence. now,...
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ambassador christopher stevens, who died in the attack. in washington today, state department spokeswoman victoria nuland acknowledged only two private guards are protecting the site. >> we have hadome challenges secing the si. we are continuing to talk to the libyan side about that. but this was not-- based on what we've seen-- any kind of breach of classified information. >> sreenivasan: meanwhile, the f.b.i. confirmed a team of agents visited benghazi yesterday, for the first time. until now, the group had stayed away, due to security concerns. a long-standing battle over google's book-scanning project was settled today. authors and publishers filed suit against the company back in 2005, saying it violated their copyrights. google launched the project a year earlier, making digital copies of books from major research libraries. in all, more than 20 million books have been scanned. now, publishers will get to choose which books are included. a lawsuit with authors is still ongoing. facebook now has one billion users. the number-one socia
ambassador christopher stevens, who died in the attack. in washington today, state department spokeswoman victoria nuland acknowledged only two private guards are protecting the site. >> we have hadome challenges secing the si. we are continuing to talk to the libyan side about that. but this was not-- based on what we've seen-- any kind of breach of classified information. >> sreenivasan: meanwhile, the f.b.i. confirmed a team of agents visited benghazi yesterday, for the first...
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. >> reporter: jetblue's steven slater is the iconic example, of course, though lacking footage of his passenger dust-up and subsequent suds-supported slide to freedom, one can only imagine how it actually looked. >> i love you! >> i love you, too. >> reporter: arellano-snyder neither approves of the behavior, nor thinks any of this is funny. >> i'm just tired, you know. but a lot of times, you have a delay, whether its mechanical or weather delay, and then you end up with even less rest than 9.5 hours. so you might get maybe eight hours behind the door, which "eight hours behind the door" means you get to your hotel and you have exactly eight hours before you have to go back to the airport. well, you have to be back at the airport an hour before your flight, so that already cuts that down to seven hours behind the door, and that doesn't include the time it takes you to fall asleep. you're pretty tired when you get up in the morning and, sometimes, it's hard to even get yourself up in the morning. >> reporter: given layoffs at his firm, architect lee braun is grateful for a job to supp
. >> reporter: jetblue's steven slater is the iconic example, of course, though lacking footage of his passenger dust-up and subsequent suds-supported slide to freedom, one can only imagine how it actually looked. >> i love you! >> i love you, too. >> reporter: arellano-snyder neither approves of the behavior, nor thinks any of this is funny. >> i'm just tired, you know. but a lot of times, you have a delay, whether its mechanical or weather delay, and then you end...
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koback of the university of missouri-cac-40 kansas city school of law helped to author the bill and steven gonzalez of the phoenix school of law. and professor gonzalez, let me start with you. on what dow base your contention that the law is unconstitutional? >> well, good evening from phoenix, ray. there's a couple of problems, i think, very serious problems with the act. but the biggest defect, i think, is that it tends to, in fact t boldly usurps federal power. the constitution in the united states gives the power of naturalization and to set policy on protecting the national borders and related issues to congress, to the federal government. and in this situation, we have a state, one state, in effect, trying to seize that power. and if you think about it, if that is permitted to continue, then there's a danger that all other states will try to do it. and the states are never going to agree. so it essentially threatens the federal order and the supremecy of congressional power here. >> suarez: professor koback, you are co-author of the bill. what do you make of that line of argument? >>
koback of the university of missouri-cac-40 kansas city school of law helped to author the bill and steven gonzalez of the phoenix school of law. and professor gonzalez, let me start with you. on what dow base your contention that the law is unconstitutional? >> well, good evening from phoenix, ray. there's a couple of problems, i think, very serious problems with the act. but the biggest defect, i think, is that it tends to, in fact t boldly usurps federal power. the constitution in the...
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steven clemons is a senior fellow at the new america foundation, a washington think tank, and publisher of a blog, the washington note. mr. clemons, what do you make of all this new discord, i guess you would call it, between president karzai and the u.s. government? >> well, i think as your commentary showed earlier, it's really not so new. it would be naive.... >> lehrer: a new episode. >> i think it would be naive to think that president karzai in afghan wouldn't be finding ways to cut deals with all of their neighbors. we're not a monopoly. the united states's position is not a monopoly. we need to stop acting as if it is. that said there's just no doubt that president karzai is willing to play one side off another, to take influence. we should be concerned about that. it's just i think we go in with a very naive picture that we can somehow control all the pieces of the game and we work through that, that portal. i think president karzai is an undependable ally. i think he's doing what he needs to do to survive, but that's not necessarily furthering the u.s. national interests in af
steven clemons is a senior fellow at the new america foundation, a washington think tank, and publisher of a blog, the washington note. mr. clemons, what do you make of all this new discord, i guess you would call it, between president karzai and the u.s. government? >> well, i think as your commentary showed earlier, it's really not so new. it would be naive.... >> lehrer: a new episode. >> i think it would be naive to think that president karzai in afghan wouldn't be finding...
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he's ohio republican steven latourette in his 9th term and a member of the appropriations committee. we regret the error. and to hari sreenivasan for what's on the "newshour" online. hari? >> sreenivasan: paul solman examines today's job numbers through the lens of his solman scale on unemployment. find that on making sense. and two takes on the political fallout from the debt limit deal-- one from judy woodruff and one from gwen ifill. those are on the rundown blog. plus on art beat, jeff talks about the pulitzer prize-winning play, "clybourne park," with the artistic director of washington, d.c.'s wooly mammoth theater all that and more is on our web site: newshour.pbs.org. jeff? >> brown: and that's the "newshour" for tonight. on monday, we'll have the latest economic news and an update on the news-corp hacking scandal in britain. i'm jeffrey brown. >> lehrer: and i'm jim lehrer. "washington week" can be seen later this evening on most pbs stations. we'll see you online and again here monday evening. have a nice weekend. thank you and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour
he's ohio republican steven latourette in his 9th term and a member of the appropriations committee. we regret the error. and to hari sreenivasan for what's on the "newshour" online. hari? >> sreenivasan: paul solman examines today's job numbers through the lens of his solman scale on unemployment. find that on making sense. and two takes on the political fallout from the debt limit deal-- one from judy woodruff and one from gwen ifill. those are on the rundown blog. plus on art...
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another giant of the congress, former senator ted stevens died today. both had hard falls , but here they are as a matter of history, on both sides of the dger. >> there's no doubt their legislative legacies are intax. they were chairman and leaders and longtime members of the house and senate, but of course they both new their befores would be written with remarks about ethic scandals that brought an end to each of their careers so that has been what tainted their long legislative record. >> lehrer: all right, david, thank you. >> ifill: now, to the continuing cleanup along the gulf of mexico. the government's point man on the oil spill-- retired coast guard admiral thad allen-- announced today that he plans to step down by the end of september once he's satisfied with recovery plans. no oil has leaked since mid- july. but there are questions about what to do with the thousands of tons of waste the disaster generated. "newshour" correspondent tom bearden filed this report from the coast. >> reporter: when the macondo oil well blew out on april 20th, bp
another giant of the congress, former senator ted stevens died today. both had hard falls , but here they are as a matter of history, on both sides of the dger. >> there's no doubt their legislative legacies are intax. they were chairman and leaders and longtime members of the house and senate, but of course they both new their befores would be written with remarks about ethic scandals that brought an end to each of their careers so that has been what tainted their long legislative...
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what comes next after the two leaders met at the white house with former national security advisor steven hadley and former california democratic representative jane harman. >> lehrer: from bahrain, margaret warner interviews a journalist who was targeted after calling for government reforms. within he was caught up in a crackdown that has detained more than a thousand bahrainies, mostly doctors, teachers, and it has cost thousands more their jobs. >> woodruff: ray suarez looks at the week that was for republican presidential hopefuls. >> lehrer: mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. >> woodruff: and jeffrey brown profiles former poet laureate robert pinsky, looking back at a career of writing about american life. about to write about is culture almost too fancy a word. it's what americans make jokes about, are afraid of,. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> i mean, where would we be without small businesses? >> we need small businesses. >> they're the ones that help drive growth. >> like electrici
what comes next after the two leaders met at the white house with former national security advisor steven hadley and former california democratic representative jane harman. >> lehrer: from bahrain, margaret warner interviews a journalist who was targeted after calling for government reforms. within he was caught up in a crackdown that has detained more than a thousand bahrainies, mostly doctors, teachers, and it has cost thousands more their jobs. >> woodruff: ray suarez looks at...